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Neck Amphora

Altamura Painter470-450 BCE

Penn Museum

Penn Museum
Philadelphia, United States

  • Title: Neck Amphora
  • Creator: Altamura Painter
  • Date Created: 470-450 BCE
  • Location Created: Capua, Campania, Italy
  • Physical Dimensions: 47.7 x 23.5 cm
  • External Link: Penn Museum online collection
  • Medium: Ceramic
  • Object Number: MS5466
  • Manufacture Location/Mint: Attica
  • Descriptive Note: Neck amphora (with twisted handles). A) Apollo and Artemis. Artemis at left, Apollo at right, an altar, with volutes, between them; both standing. Artemis, holding bow and arrows in left hand, seems to be pouring from an oinochoe onto the altar. Apollo, holding a kithara with his left hand, pours a libation from a phiale onto the altar. B) Dionysos and a maenad. Maenad at left, Dionysos at right. Maenad wears leopard's skin, holds oinochoe in right hand and a snake in the other. Dionysos faces her, standing, thyrsus in left hand and kantharos in right. Intact.
  • Culture: Greek
  • Credit Line: Purchased from E. Canessa, 1916
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